Xintong Chen Y4
Teatro Teatrino: Theorising a Speculative Feminist (SF) Theatre in Rome Theatres are both the conflicting repositories of the monumentalised backdrop, and its fleeting acts; the abiding typology (theatre architecture), and its transient history (theatre performances); the spatial representation of fixated political and social ideologies, and the potential catalyst for subversive changes.
Setting forth the dilemma in this manner, the project aims to speculate on a ‘feminist theatre’ as an alternative spatial ideal to the ‘canon’ of conventional and modern Western theatres, beyond their patriarchal origins in ancient Roman theatres as a dictating background to the dramaturgy.
Sited at the so-called Temple of Minerva Medica in Rome - a 4th century AD temple forgotten in its modern urban context, the architectural investigation reinterprets classic theatre typologies as opportunities for an open-air Subverting & Fraying/Speculative Feminist (SF) theatre to provoke new nature-culture relationships in theatres and their feminist alternatives.
